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Job Hunt 101 - Cover Letter how to?

There will come different scenarios where you need to communicate with people. Writing a letter from scratch every time is time consuming. Having a template and modifying it to suit your purpose saves time and is easier. Here I have suggestions on what templates to prepare and samples. You need to prepare templates for     * Cover letter,     * An email cover letter and     * A linkedin inmail if you plan to use linkedin. COVER LETTER The cover letter can be in the doc or pdf format, doc is preferable as computerised searches are done in doc files. Having a cover letter helps you in the following ways When computer searches for relevant terms, chances are that it might find it in your cover letter if not on the resume. So do not replicate the resume data in the cover letter. Use the cover letter to compliment your resume. If it passes through the computer search and your resume is visible to recruiter/HR, they will read your cov...

Job Hunt 101 - Doc Prep - Resume How To?

The resume must be able to land you interview calls. Your resume must successfully be able to navigate through Recruiters, consultants Human Resource Hiring Manager Technical Team I know you will ace the technical rounds if you are able to get through the hierarchy of recruiters, HR people etc. Your resume must help you climb this ladder.  You can have an aesthetically pleasing resume/CV which does not have a lot of information on them but is very neat. This can help you with an academic position but in the industry, you are one amongst the million talented people who can get the job done. Here an aesthetically pleasing resume wont be able to help you.  Your resume must have a lot of data. This data must be able to satisfy the requirements of the Recruiters, must poke the interest of the HR and must show your accomplishments to the technical people who are going to be interviewing you.  Recruiters, Human Resource -  Most recruiters are no...

Job Hunt 101 - Document Preparation

The first step of the preparation process is to get your documents ready and easily available when needed. There are a number of documents we need to have for a successful application. Here we discuss the documents and how they can be prepared.  The steps involved are Pre-document preparation Resume Cover letter E-Mail cover letter  Linkedin in-mail letter Click on the links to get started.  Thanks, Abishek